Course curriculum

    1. Welcome and warm-up for learning

    2. What is 'Checking for Understanding'? Why is it important? How to do this.

    3. Example: Checking for understanding after giving instructions

    4. In this lesson...

    5. 1. TEACH, THEN ASK A QUESTION

    6. Thoughts on this from a CLS teacher

    7. 2. ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS about what you teach

    8. 3. PAUSE: Why it's important to pause after you ask a question and how long to make the pause

    9. Example

    10. PAIR-SHARE: A useful activity in mixed-ability classes. Why to use this and how to set it up.

    11. POINT: Ask students to point, and monitor to check for understanding

    12. Example

    13. 4. PICK A NON-VOLUNTEER - a way to hear from all different students and to get a random sample to check for understanding

    14. Thoughts on this from CLS teachers

    15. 5. REALLY LISTEN TO THE STUDENT'S RESPONSE - Do they fully understand? Do you need to teach this learning again?

    16. Example: Using Kahoot to measure understanding

    17. 6. EFFECTIVE FEEDBACK AFTER YOU HEAR A STUDENT'S ANSWER: echo, elaborate or teach again

    18. Example: Elaborate on the student's answer

    19. Example: Echo and Elaborate

    20. Example: Echo and ask the student to elaborate

    21. Review and Lesson Close

    22. TAPPLE

    1. Students love using mini whiteboards

    2. Make or buy mini whiteboards

    3. "Chin it!"

    4. Formative assessment using a mini whiteboard

    5. More ideas for how to use the mini whiteboard

About this course

  • $25.00
  • 27 lessons
  • 0.5 hours of video content